Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College released the results in three stages--general, residential and academic concerns. Key findings included broad dissatisfaction with academic advising and indications that race relations have remained comparable with levels 10 years ago. A disturbing statistic showed that about half of undergraduate women had experienced unwanted sexual attention here...
Nonetheless, there is ample cause for concern. Unlike many other diseases, AIDS remains fatal; there is no known cure. It is still spreading rapidly among intravenous drug abusers. They pass along the virus to those who share needles with them or to sexual partners, both male and female. Women who are part of the drug scene often transmit the virus to their unborn children, almost surely dooming them to an early death. Some researchers fear that AIDS could eventually spread, through heterosexual intercourse, from addicts to the population at large. But so far the epidemic has confined itself...
...Africa, where many scientists believe the disease originated. AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike anywhere else, is a heterosexual scourge that affects men and women equally. One reason is that in some countries of the sub-Sahara men practice polygamy, while in other regions men commonly have multiple sexual partners. Moreover, the continent is rife with other sexually transmitted maladies, such as genital ulcers and lesions caused by syphilis. Such breaks in the skin make it easier for the AIDS virus to penetrate the body and enter the bloodstream. As many as 5 million Africans are thought to harbor...
...AIDS will fan out from the ghettos into the general population, but not likely. If the spread occurs, it will be slow: many scientists believe the virus is passed along less readily in conventional intercourse than in homosexual encounters. Anal intercourse is by far the most likely means of sexual transmission. Although the evidence is sketchy, women seem to be more at risk than men of acquiring the virus from the opposite sex. So far, 1,757 U.S.-born women may have contracted AIDS from men, and 565 men from women...
...explosion of cases among non-drug-abusing heterosexuals in the U.S." In the forthcoming new edition of her book Mobilizing Against Aids, Nichols says that heterosexuals can have a "very low risk of contracting AIDS" if they use condoms and take the time to learn enough about their sexual partners to avoid drug abusers or the promiscuous...